A player of this instrument backed Sophie Tucker’s recording of “After You’ve Gone” while leading his namesake “Molers.” Gunther Schuller’s book Early Jazz praises the high-register solos executed by a player of this instrument from the Jazz Age, Jimmy Harrison. On all early Ellington versions of “East St. Louis Toodle-oo,” this instrument plays an 18-bar solo after Bubber Miley’s opening solo. Miley and a player of this instrument, “Tricky Sam” Nanton, developed Ellington’s “jungle style” in the 1930s. Sy Oliver penned “Opus One” for a bandleader who played this instrument as leader of the (*) Clambake Seven in the Swing Era. This was the [emphasize] larger of two instruments to play in a growling style with a plunger mute, which is contrasted with the comic glissandi played by Dixieland artists. For 10 points, Jack Teagarden played what brass instrument, also played by the bandleader of “In the Mood,” Glenn Miller? ■END■
ANSWER: trombone [accept slide trombone] (The opening line refers to Miff Mole.)
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